Medieval pits and arrowhead at Stoneybrook, Brick End (EHER 4707)

Three pits, filled with dirty clay containing medieval pot of the 13th century, and bone and charcoal, cut into yellow boulder clay approximately 10m north of north-west corner of the house. Discovered during 1974-1976 excavation for a shallow fish pond.

1975. Excavation. Three pits, filled with dirty clay containing medieval pot of the 13th century, and bone and charcoal, cut into yellow boulder clay approximately 10m north of north-west corner of the house. Discovered during excavation for a shallow fish pond. Pottery: five sherds, body and base sherds, no rims. Fabric: quartz gritted and sand gritted, unglazed, 13th century. Also found, was an iron arrow head. Found 1975. Site Assessment = Except where cut by fish pond (c0.3-0.5m deep), pits covered by loam.<1> Drawings in SMR. <2> In Essex Archaeology and History a note on the pottery from Brook End says there were two rim sherds. One of a cooking pot 1150-1225, in grey fabric, sandy with flint and quartzite grits and red surfaces, with longitudinal finger nail impressions along the rim. The other, rim of a bowl, was thickened and rounded to form a circular section. Reddish fabric, with quartzite grits, fire blackened exterior 1200-1300. Features were noticed by Mr E.W. Broe of Broxted when excavating for a fish pond. <3> Finds in Saffron Walden Museum. <4>